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Bulgaria: Arrears on housing or utility bills

An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.

Country: Bulgaria Indicator: Arrears on housing or utility bills Year: 2025

Country overview

Bulgaria

Current reading for Arrears on housing or utility bills in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: Arrears on housing or utility bills

Latest value

18.20 Percent of people

European ranking

4 / 23

Improved by 1 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

+7.7 puntos

Bulgaria is 7.7 points above the European average.

EU: 10.50

Affected population

≈ 1.17 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 18.20 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 10.47 Percent of people

Internal regions

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Indicator: Arrears on housing or utility bills

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Severen tsentralen

    +39.60

    25.40

  2. 2

    Severozapaden

    +13.20

    20.60

  3. 3

    Yugoiztochen

    +11.50

    20.30

  4. 4

    Severoiztochen

    +4.90

    19.10

  5. 5

    Yuzhen tsentralen

    +0.50

    18.30

  6. 6

    Yugozapaden

    -24.20

    13.80

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Bulgaria performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Arrears on housing or utility bills, with a large gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Bulgaria

In Bulgaria, Arrears on bills stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 18.2% versus 10.5% in 2025, a large gap of 7.7 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Bulgaria, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 23.60% in 2020 to 18.20% in 2025. The latest step, from 18.70% in 2024 to 18.20% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal is weaker than the primary one.

Regional differences in Bulgaria

In Bulgaria, Arrears on bills shows noticeable regional variation. Across 6 comparable regions, Severen tsentralen records the highest value (25.4%) and Yugozapaden the lowest (13.8%), a gap of 11.6 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Bulgaria, Housing & Energy Stress shows a mixed picture: pressure signals and relative strengths coexist across this indicator and its related indicators compared with Europe. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.